The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-08-17

train was so heavy that two enrins
were hitched to it, and wher it passed
this place i: was one hour and half be.
hind time. thatsworlh, the next station
east of here, is six miles off, and the
run there was male in seven minutes,
30 the terrible momentum of these fifty
coaches and two heavy engines shooting
through space at the rate of mile a
minute, can be understood. No stop was
made at Chatsworth, and on the heavy
train, with living freight, sped through
the darkness of the night. Three miles
east of Chatsworth is little slough
where the railroad crosses 'lry run,
about ten feet deep and fifteen wide.
Over this was stretched an ordinary
wooden trustle bridge, and as1
THE TRAIN CAME THUNDERING DOWN
on it, what was the TERROR of the en-
gineer of the front engine when he
saw that the bridge was on fire. Right
before his eyes lcaped the bright flames
and the next instant he was among them.
There was no chance to stop. Had
there been warning. it would have taken
mile to stopped that onrushing mass
of wood, iron and human liyes, and the
train was within 100 yards of the red
tongued messenger of death before they
flashed their final signals, into the en-
giner's face; but he passed over in safety,
the first engine keeping the rails. As
it went over the bridge fell beneath, and
it could only have been the terrific
speed of the train that saved the lives of
the engineer and his fireman; but the
next engine went down, and instantly
the deed of deatl was done.
CAR CRUSHED on CAR,
coach piled on coach, and in the twinkl-
ing of an eye nearly one hundred peo-
pie found instant death and fifty more
As for the wounded, they were every
where; only the sleeping coaches escaped
and as the startled and halfdresscd pas
sengers came ont of them, they found
ouCu IL oCeHc VI ututi az 10 Iuiclf
witnessed, and such work to do tl.at it
seemed as If human hands were utterly
incapable uf it, 1t lacked just H. Q
minutes of midnight. Down in the
ditch lay the second engine, the engineer
dead and the fireman badly injured. On
top of each other, like child's card
house, after he had swept it with his
hand, lay the cars. The six dav coaches
were tclescoped
As CARS NEVER WE'RE BEFORE,
and three of them were passed in just
enough space for one. The second car
had mounted OFF its tracks, crushed
through the car ahead OF it, crushing the
woodwork aside like tinder, and resting
on top Of the seats, while every lasscng-
er in the front ear was laying lead and
dying underneath. Out of tnat car hut
four people came alive. On top OF the
second ear, although the latter did not
cover its bearer as completely as the
o.her, its bottom was smeared with the
blood of its victims. The other three
cars were not so bllly crushed, blt they
were broken and twisted in every con
ceivable way, and every timber and
beam represented n crushed human frame
or broken bone. Instantly the air was
filled with the cries of the wounded and
the shrilks of
THOSE ABOUT TO DIE.
The groans of men, the screancs of wo
| men united to make appalling scene ,an'
above all could be heard the agonlzing
cries of little children. In some in
stances they lay pinned aloagside o
their dead parents, and there was an
other terrible danger yet to be met
The bridge was still burning, and the
wrecked cars were lying around in the
fereclly burning embers. EVERYWHERE
in the wreck were wounded and unhur
men, women and children, whose lives
coull DC saved il they could be gottel
out, but whose death in most horrible
form was most certain II the twistea WOO
OF the broken cars caught iire; anu
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